Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . Valladolid,Don John of Austria was ac-companied by Ottavio Gon-zaga^ and two or threeservants, amongst whom wasa French postilion who inafter days, travelling with thehistorian Brantdme, was de-scribed by that writer as aFrenchified Swiss, or halfSavoyard, half Spaniard, know-ing all the posts, highroads,and byways of France.^ DonJohn is said by his biographer to have travelled disguised, withstained face and dyed frizzled hair, as the Moorish slave ofGonzaga.^ Of this disguise, which may, as we have
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Don John of Austria, or Passages from the history of the sixteenth century, MDXLVIIMDLXXVII . Valladolid, Don John of Austria was ac-companied by Ottavio Gon-zaga^ and two or threeservants, amongst whom wasa French postilion who inafter days, travelling with thehistorian Brantdme, was de-scribed by that writer as aFrenchified Swiss, or halfSavoyard, half Spaniard, know-ing all the posts, highroads, and byways of France.^ DonJohn is said by his biographer to have travelled disguised, withstained face and dyed frizzled hair, as the Moorish slave ofGonzaga.^ Of this disguise, which may, as we have seen, havebeen adopted partly in imitation of his father at Innsbruck, * no 1 Son to Ferrante, so famous formerly in arms, who was Viceroy in Sicily, andafterwards under Charles V. governor of Milan. Bartidoglio : Warn of Flanders, translated by Henry, Earl of Monmouth, London, 1654, fol., p. 150. ^ Vies des Hommes Ilbistres et Grandes Cajiitaiws Esirangers. Discours XLI.CEuvres de BrantSme. Paris, 1787, 8 tomes 8vo, iv. p. 344. 3 Vanderhammen : Don Juan de Austria, f. 292. ?* See p. 116.. CHAP. V. HIS ARRIVAL IN THE NETHERLANDS. 185 mention is made in his letters addressed during the journey tothe King. The first of them, written from Irun, on the 24th ofOctober, ran thus :— Sir—I have just arrived here at Irun, never in my life having experienced so much fatigue as in this single journey, for, the horses being few, we have been obliged to ride the same often for twelve leagues, and sometimes for sixteen, ^ and withal to consider ourselves lucky if we could get away from the post- houses within two hours, or a little less after our coming thither. So your Majesty will believe we have undergone much fatigue and had little sleep, although our pace has been slow, in spite of which I have been troubled by a return of some old ailments. Yet, God willing, they shall not stop me, seeing it is so import- ant to the service of God and your Majesty that I should surmount all complaints